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CVE-2008-4682

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4682 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Wireshark versions 0.99.7 through 1.0.3. It allows remote attackers to crash the application by providing a malformed Tamos CommView capture file (.ncf) containing an unexpected packet type. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to application unavailability. While not actively exploited in the wild and lacking significant community discussion or media coverage, a local denial-of-service exploit (EDB-6622) is publicly available.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.99.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:0.99.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
9.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-6622 · Sep 29, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0929 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 23,703 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.6-EL3.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.6-2.el4_7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: wireshark-0:1.0.6-2.el5_3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-4682Low

wireshark: DoS (app abort) via a malformed .ncf file with an unknown/unexpected packet type

Oct 1, 2008

References

bugs.wireshark.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/32355
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/34144
securityreason.com / securityalert/4462
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/45505
shinnok.evonet.ro / vulns_html/wireshark.html
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10955
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14705
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-082.htm
exploit-db.com / exploits/6622
wiki.rpath.com / Advisories:rPSA-2008-0336
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/499154/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/31468
securityfocus.com / bid/31838
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2872
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2008-06.html
Vendor Advisory